An essay on difficult labours. Part second / by Thomas Denman.

  • Denman Thomas, 1733-1815.
Date:
1790
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay on difficult labours. Part second / by Thomas Denman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    % The woman recovered without any untoward circumftance. But the fuccefs of fuch attempts to pre- ferve the life of a child is very precarious; and the operation of turning a child under the circumftances before fiated, is rather to be confidered among thofe things of which an o experienced man may fometimes avail him- felf in critical fituations, than as fubmitting to the ordinary rules of practice. SECTION II. ON FILLETS. The fillet ufed in the practice of mid- wifery is a Angle band, intended to be fixed upon the head of a child detained in its paf- fage through the pelvis, for the purpofe of extracting the head. It has been fuppofed that fillets were ufed in the practice of midwifery as early as the time of Hippocrates ; but whenever they were invented, they have undergone a variety of changes, l